CHURCH ROBBERIES IN FRANCE.
ANOTHER STATUE RECOVERED. Received October 22, 8.22 a.m. PARIS, October 21. The police at Limoges have received a mysterious package from London, returning a fourteenth century statue of the Virgin, .vorth £I,OOO, supposed to have been stolen by Antoine Thomas from the chuich at Sauvetat. (Antoine Thomas, a merchant at Clermont-Ferrand, was arrested two weeks ago on charges, of theft of reliquaries and treasures from various churches in France. He confessed that he had been engaged in systematic robbery of valuables from churches and alleged that many of the clergy had connived at the thefts.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8862, 23 October 1907, Page 5
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99CHURCH ROBBERIES IN FRANCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8862, 23 October 1907, Page 5
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